I decided to give water cooling a go. I've been wanting to since about the third time I saw a water loop. lol. The first couple times I thought it was the stupidest idea ever; water in your beloved computer?! Then eventually I saw some awesome rig water cooled and I was like, I WANT...

So then I just had to find out what I wanted exactly, and then get money. So here's what I came up with after some suggestions and stuff in my other thread:

Heres what came today in their boxes. Sorry if pics aren't great, using my tablet. I'm also horrible with taking pictures
First the pretty Monsoon fittings
Some moar
And mooaaar

CPU Block box
Didn't take it out of its plastic yet. just made sure everything was there

I'm slightly annoyed with the tubing its not RED red. It's a little orangish, compared to the red on the Monsoon fittings. Doesn't look that bad in the picture though
Looks really good in the picture actually; maybe its just me
Packaging from Frozencpu was great about 4-5 inches of brown paper covering everything.

Edit: I guess you probly want to see my case now. Here's a picture a couple days ago with my loop plan

I should be back tomorrow with more, UPS says it'll be delivered tomorrow.

(Lol, my internet is so slow I oiled a par of boots while I was waiting for these to upload)

(Lol, my internet is so slow I oiled a par of boots while I was waiting for these to upload)

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I wear these everyday, all day, always. When I wear them out I buy a new pair, roughly every other year. I'm hard on boots, some make them last 5 years or longer. I use Obenauf's, now, I used to use Montana Pitch Blend. When I was a kid I remember the smell of the mink oil my Dad used to use, then he'd put them by the wood stove so the oil would penetrate.

Ya, I like to use mink oil. My boots get light tan from wear after a month or two and I rub mink oil in them, gets em dark brown again. My favorite work boots are shmidt, good heavy steel toe boots. I also have some steel toe ariat pull on boots, alot lighter than the shmidts.

I'm so excited, everything came today while I was at work. PerformancePC packaged averything very nicely with styrofoam peanuts, and then that covered in bubble wrap.
Heres what came today, Radiator, Fans and Pump/Reservoir
Pump/Res
Very clean and looks like excellent build quality
Radiator. More bubbles
Plastic plugs for transport
The copper foil sticker is crooked on both sides
It's also really dirty on the outside, covered with dust. And it makes a clinking sound when I turn it, like theres bits of metal inside or something. Will have to rinse it out and see. Didn't get any distilled water yet so I'll wait on that
Here are it's copper plated screws and plugs
And here's everything all together.

Bloody internet died since friday night, just bumped a coax cable going into the modem and it started working just now. I'll try and get pictures up in a bit, have the parts installed almost ready for a leak test

Heres a shot of the radiator before installation. There was some minor corrosion inside so I rinsed it first with distilled water, got some gravelly looking stuff out of it and helped with the clinking.
Case with everything pulled ready for install
Here's the pretty block
Back side
Beautiful copper...
Inside of the block with default jetplate. I wasn't sure which jetplate to use because it doesn't specifically say that one is for AMD, so I put the one that said optimized for LGA2011 on it. Has a bigger hole, hence more flow. Idk if there is really even much performance difference at all between them
Here it is installed
Pleliminary hose connections, making sure f lengths and whatnot
Back side of res
Here it is all hooked up with fittings. Those things were a massive pain to install, I would highly recommend thinner wall tubing, like maybe 1/16" to anyone planning on using monsoon fittings. They look good tho
Another shot
Reservoir, all topped off with water after running a couple hours

My only problem so far is bubbles. I've gotten then out of the system fairly well I think, took the rad out while it was running and turned it around letting the bubbles flow out, but the turbulence in the res blows air bubbles into the inlet. I think I need to slow the pump speed down a bit, but plugging it into the 4-pin CPU fan header on my mobo it doesn't change the speed. I've tried setting it to run slower in BIOS and it doesn't seem to make a difference.

Anybody have any ideas as far as PWM control?

Edit: nevermind about PWM, I fugured it out in bios. Speed is good now, isn't sucking any bubbles anymore, can't see any in the lines either. I think most of the air is bled out now. Now for temps, before with IBT on high it got over 70c, Here's a pic from today, same setting and speed it got to only 35c, (test crashed after 8 passes but I'll deal with that later) I'd say a 35c+ temerature drop is pretty dang awesome! Right now I'm pretty happy with this

Edit: It's running good now, seems like the bubbles are worked out. This res isn't the greatest as far as flow inside, the water that comes back, if there is any air at all it blows it into the pump intake. Have to run the pump slow to keep it from sucking bubbles if theres any air in the res

This res isn't the greatest as far as flow inside, the water that comes back, if there is any air at all it blows it into the pump intake. Have to run the pump slow to keep it from sucking bubbles if theres any air in the res

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Is it filled to the "Max" line? I don't have any cavitation troubles with mine, even at 4500 rpm. I have a lot more components in my loop, so I'm sure that helps. I used to with my old Rev 2 integrated res, so I know what you are referring to.

Is it filled to the "Max" line? I don't have any cavitation troubles with mine, even at 4500 rpm. I have a lot more components in my loop, so I'm sure that helps. I used to with my old Rev 2 integrated res, so I know what you are referring to.

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Lol at that video. The whole thing turned into a spinning vortex. With this res, at top speed if theres much air in it, in front of the inlet there will be a whirling vortex of air that gets pulled straight across into the pump, even through the piece of foam and mesh. Right now I have it filled above the max line, so theres only a little air at the very top. What kindof reservoir do you currently have?

Also, earlier it was getting kindof foamy, so I drained it and refilled again with pure distilled water and its all clear. Mustve had a bit of something in it. That also helped a little with the bubbles. Can't hear them at all now

Thanks. Yeah, I might be able to try for 5ghz, I hope. Temps were my biggest concern before

I'm not quite sure what you're getting at. You mean you think it might be half filled with air?

Lol at that video. The whole thing turned into a spinning vortex. With this res, at top speed if theres much air in it, in front of the inlet there will be a whirling vortex of air that gets pulled straight across into the pump, even through the piece of foam and mesh. Right now I have it filled above the max line, so theres only a little air at the very top. What kindof reservoir do you currently have?

Also, earlier it was getting kindof foamy, so I drained it and refilled again with pure distilled water and its all clear. Mustve had a bit of something in it. That also helped a little with the bubbles. Can't hear them at all now

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Im not sure either, but don't worry about it. Your stuff is fine. Except are you not running 3 fans on the rad?

Ya that stupid mesh is loud. Hence the controller and resistors. Makes it very quiet. I've thought about putting spacers behind the fans, getting them a little higher off the mesh. But like you said they're not so important now. But I already have all the fans, don't have anything else to do with them. Unless I mod my little silverstone SG02B for 120mm...lol. Oh also, I took the optical drive out thats in the pictures. I use it so rarely I'll probably just sell it and get an external.